Annual PwC Healthcare Conference - 6th edition

Bruce Wollman is the Associate Medical Director of Government Relations at Kaiser Permanente (KP) - Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (MAPMG) where he oversees departments including Radiation Oncology, Healthcare Internalization, Pharmacy, Pathology/Lab, and Genetics. Kaiser Permanente is a leading non-profit health care provider across 8 states and the District of Columbia, dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable care and improving community health. With integrated care teams and innovative technology, comprehensive and accessible care is prioritised, focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, and chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is recognised as the top healthcare delivery system in the United States.

Lina Shadid is a Partner and Health Industry Lead at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Middle East. Lina focuses on developing transformation strategies, operational improvement projects and large public and healthcare transformation and digitisation programs. Her prime focus is on digital health strategies, digital hospital implementations, and enhancing patient experiences, all of which are anchored in innovation, data utilisation and AI. Prior to PwC, Lina was the Vice President for IBM Global Healthcare and Life Science Centre of Competence serving various global healthcare clients. Her responsibilities included determining business and strategic direction, market prioritisation and operations for the global healthcare CoC in addition to serving as lead consulting partner for several clients in both the public and private healthcare sector.

Carole Brückler is Head of Digital Health Technologies at the Ministry of Economy in Luxembourg, where she leads the development of economic policies and programs aimed at fostering an attractive ecosystem for the development and growth of digital health companies. With a background in competitive strategy consulting to the pharmaceutical industry, Carole has also served in leadership roles in digital health startups. She holds a PhD and a patent in chemical biology as well as a Masters in pharmaceutical chemistry. Additionally, she serves as Vice-President of the board of directors for the Société Nationale de Crédit et d'Investissement (SNCI) and as a board member of the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH). With her robust background across the value chain of healthcare industries, she offers expertise in leveraging digital solutions to drive innovation and reimagine patient care.

Christian Oberlé is the President and Director of the National Health Fund (Caisse nationale de santé - CNS), where he focuses on accelerating the digital transformation of the health and care sector. Simultaneously,  from 2018 to 2023, he presided over the eHealth Agency.  Christian started his career at PwC in 1989, first in auditing, then in consulting. He then held the position of Administrative and Financial Director of the François Elisabeth Foundation. His areas of responsibility included the construction of the Centre Hospitalier Kirchberg, the merger of five Luxembourg hospitals and the development of the newly created hospital group (HRS) in terms of governance, organisational strategy, management, and digitalisation. In 2006, he also took charge of the General Management of the Bohler Clinic. From 2017, he held the position of Director of the Robert Schuman Hospitals Foundation and merged the five hospitals with the newly acquired ZithaKlinik within one single structure. As a board member of the Federation of Luxembourg Hospitals (FHL), he committed to optimise the IT systems of the hospital sector and initiated Luxith, an FHL spinoff created to pool IT investments, that he chaired until November 2018.

Mr. Clayton Hamilton is the Regional Technical Officer for Data and Digital Health within the WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Division for Country Health Policies and Systems, providing qualified support and guidance on all aspects of digital transformation in the context of strengthening and reforming health systems of the Region’s 53 Member States. 

With a background in ICT development and business management and over 26 years of UN experience working in the fields of technology, digital health, and public health, Mr. Hamilton provides strategic guidance to assist countries in their development and implementation of national digital health programmes within the framework of delivering on The European Work Programme (2020-2025) 'United Action for Better Health', WHO’s triple billion targets, and working towards the achievement of the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development.